Dealing with Our Coming Economic Disaster

American Thinker ^ | May 14, 2011 | Frank Ryan

[LMAO]

I have a different take.

I don’t doubt that we are already on the path of no return, but my prediction is we will get a Pinochet style dictator before all this unfolds....IMO

[GlockThe Vote]

Bump.

[TruthConquers]

It does appear that the citizens of this country don’t know enough history to know that is what is coming next.

A Police state and a Dictator is part of the economic down fall of those who don’t heed history.

[marbren]

Hi Quix, I came over from the religious forum to see what people think about thing to come. Looks like no one has a clue here.

[familyop]

"Funny how no one says to stock up on trucks, gasoline, and guns so that you can go into anywhere and take anything that you want.

I know in the movies those guys don’t fare well.

But in real life they do.

Who’s with me!!!

(I am, of course kidding. Kind of....)"

Thanks for the chuckle. Those kind don't really do well in real life, either, as you probably know. And we do have the right to defend ourselves with force when necessary, but there are many wise and peaceful steps to secure one's property in advance (pleasant looking physical obstacles, cameras, dogs, arrangements for visibility, lighting, approaches, communications, etc.).

Our American people are about to become very poor, on average, and probably very gradually. Some of you have seen those conditions in other countries. Become as self-sufficient as possible now in order to avoid living in squalor later.

[DuncanWaring]

So all we’ve gotta do is sit around and have faith and pray and manna will fall from the heavens for us?

[GeronL]

I am going to create a bubble universe to live in for a while. lol.

[hal ogen]

Remember...

nobama hates you, hates your family, hates Free America, hates Americans, hates the Constitution and hates the Bill of Rights. nobama is a hate crime foisted upon America. nobama is the Destroyer.

Everything nobama (and his minions) does is intentional.

God help us all.

[griswold3]

just attended an auction for 70 acres of farm ground, central ohio area, $6500/acre. How soon til farm ground crashes?

[little jeremiah]

It’s not fixable. And people like Ryan who are touted as the conservatives who will fix stuff - and castigated by Dems as extremists - are actually part of the problem.

There is now no way out of this mess, only through it, and that’s going to be like running through a fire.

[John123]

The Federal Reserve winds down QE2 in June, starting on May 31, 2011

Your date is premature, dude... QE2 ends on June 30th.

[RightGeek]

So what’s it going to be - depression or hyper inflation? Buiding up cash won’t help if it is the latter.

[driftdiver]

“The best and only approach is to start exercising faith in The Lord Jesus Christ. Make the decision now to surrender to his will for you! He is more than capable of being responsible for you.”

Even in biblical times people stored food for the lean times.

Yes we must have faith in the Lord. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t provide for our families.

[RegulatorCountry]

The lightly populated areas of the southeast should make out well with its year-round growing season. So food will be plentiful. The mild winters also favor good survival for populations.

There's a reason most of the inland south was lightly populated from the very beginnings of this nation. Year-round growing conditions exist in subtropical to tropical areas. Disease. To help paint the picture, as a college student I worked summers at a gorgeous old mountain lodge and resort that had it's beginnings as a summer retreat for the well-to-do of Charleston and Savannah. It belonged to a former Confederate of note, Wade Hampton. They fled the "foul miasmas," yellow fever, mosquito borne diseases. The old money set from those locales still summer there, despite the eradication of the disease that set their ancestors fleeing. Tradition and all that, southerners are big on it.

Further inland, there is no year-round growing season. Winter is much shorter and less severe, true. The soil tends toward red clay. You can grow a great garden in it if you know what you're doing, but it takes work and soil enrichment. Without that, red clay makes excellent brick and that is exactly what it seems like after baking in the hot summer sun. I've actually had a pickaxe bounce off of it before, when I was trying to install a dry laid fieldstone wall one July. I ended up waiting until October, lol.

A mild temperate climate with enough rain or surface water to avoid drought conditions would be best, and soil type matters. Silt loam, brown to black. Hard to find that in mild temperate zones. Riverbottoms in the far southern Appalachians, especially in the "thermal belt" that rarely gets snow on the ground would work. The cities there have gone way left for the most part, see Asheville, NC. The more remote areas are either foo-foo resort or very clannish mountain people who would view you with suspicion.

[Nowhere Man]

Funny how no one says to stock up on trucks, gasoline, and guns so that you can go into anywhere and take anything that you want.

I know in the movies those guys don’t fare well.

But in real life they do.

Who’s with me!!!

(I am, of course kidding. Kind of....)

That sort of reminds me of the old TV series "Jericho" where a man named Jonah took over a small airport with his gang and loaded up on firearms, ammo, fuel and fixed up old 1970's/1980's era cars and trucks. Basically he occasionally helped out Jericho but he and his forces had their own agenda.

[3boysdad]

Those would be hard-goods and they posses utility. They can actually put a roof over your head and food in your belly. AND, you can trade them for other hard-goods of utility... unlike gold and silver. Have you ever tried to eat gold or silver or kill a deer with it? I wouldn't trade anything I have for gold and silver when the crap hits the fan.

[Nowhere Man]

Well stated. It’s always been my belief that two groups of people, one favoring liberty and freedom, and the other trying to establish slavery, cannot and will not live together.

It’s my contention that history proves this. We either separate or we go to war.

I'm afraid that is the only way we will win, either go to war and beat them or we peacefully separate, shake hands and go our own separate ways.

[driftdiver]

There is a video on youtube of a guy trying to give away a gold coin. First he tried to sell it for $20 and there were no takers. He couldn’t even give it away.

Most people don’t know what gold looks like.

[3boysdad]

And what about the people who invest in gold/silver certificates?! Do you think when the crap hits the fan they’ll just be able to walk up and say, “Can I have my gold now please?” I wonder if they think they’ll ever be able to walk into the grocery store and buy bread with gold? When the dollar ceases to have fiat value and you walk into a grocery store with gold you’re dead - you’ll be far out numbered. Gold is beautiful, but it only has value in a stable economy.

[Quix]

TOO TRUE.

Amazingly—which is shocking give such a bright bunch of conservatives and most of them Christians to boot.